Journal article
New Kids on the Block: young people, the city and public pedagogies
Global Studies of Childhood, Vol.3(2), pp.115-128
01/06/2013
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Abstract
In March 2012, Contact Inc., a community cultural development organization based in Brisbane, Australia, launched the project ‘Walking Neighbourhood: hosted by children’. This project sought to engage young people in the negotiation of a large urban space, as well as provoke an awareness of child actualization by challenging existing understandings of the role young people play as active citizens. By asking a group of children, aged between eight and twelve, to navigate their way through a large urban space and subsequently lead a curated tour of this space for groups of participant adults, Walking Neighbourhood unsettled existing notions of child safety, the place of children within the city and assumptions surrounding young people as cognizant, active citizens. This article will explore the implications of the Walking Neighbourhood project and how renewed understandings of young people's capacities to navigate urban spaces as active citizens might form.
Details
- Title
- New Kids on the Block: young people, the city and public pedagogies
- Creators
- Andrew Hickey - University of Southern QueenslandLouise Phillips - University of Queensland
- Publication Details
- Global Studies of Childhood, Vol.3(2), pp.115-128
- Publisher
- Sage Publications Ltd.
- Identifiers
- 991012978828102368
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2013 by SAGE Publications Ltd
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Education
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article